Railway Recruitment Board (RRBs) will conduct
a Written exam for recruitment of Junior Engineer (Civil, Electrical,
Mechanical, Electronics, Communication, Maintenance, Automobile, Industrial, IT.
Printing Press) & Depot Material Superintendent. Nowadays
Competition Level become very high so Competitive Exams gets too tougher.
Without Proper Knowledge of Syllabus Pattern, one can not
give 100% in the exam. Without Information about exam pattern
syllabus Preparation will not become a surity for Selection. For solving
candidates purpose, we are providing the latest Syllabus & Exam Pattern of
Senior Section Engineer Exam Exam conducting RRB.
Exam Pattern:- There will be a Objective Type
Multiple Choice Question in the Written Exam for Junior
Engineer (JE). Pattern for the written exam will be as follows:-- Written exam will consists of Total 150 Questions.
- Time Duration for Written exam is 2 Hours.
- There will be Negative Marking of 1/3 Marks in the written exam.
- 90 Questions will be asked from Technical Ability & General Science.
- 60 Questions will be from General Awareness, Arithmetic, General Intelligence and Reasoning
Syllabus:- Syllabus for the
Junior Engineer (P-Way, Bridge, Works, Drawing &
Design Civil, Estimator, Senior Estimator, Research Engineering, Engineer
Workshop, Mechanical Workshop, (W/Shop) Engine Development, Mechanical, Carriage
& Wagon (Open Line), Mechanical (MWT), (Research) Mechanical, Diesel
Mechanical, Diesel Electrical, Loco, (Drawing/Design/ Designing& Drawing)
Mechanical/Mechanical Design, J&T (Jig & Tools), (Design) Carriage &
Wagon, Electrical/ Electrical General, Electrical/ TRD, Electrical,
(Electrical/TRS), (RS), (Design) Electrical, (Drawing/Design/ Design &
Drawing) Electrical, (Signal), (Telecommunication), Drawing/ Drawing &
Design/ Signal/ S&T, Estimator (S&T), Drawing, S&T Workshop,
(Research) Instrumentation, IT, (Track Machine), Engg. Workshop, Plant, Printing
Press, Melt, Depot Material Superindent) as per Notification is given
below:-
General Intelligence &
Reasoning:- Questions will be asked from analogies,
similarities and differences, spatial visualization, spatial orientation,
problem solving, analysis, judgment, decision making, visual memory,
discrimination, observation, relationship concepts, arithmetic reasoning, verbal
and figure classification, arithmetical number series, non-verbal series, coding
and decoding, statement conclusion, syllogistic reasoning.
Arithmetic:- Algebra Basic
algebra, factors & simplification, polynomials, Arithmetic Simple &
compound interest, installments, taxation, shares & dividends, Ratio &
proportion, percentage, time, distance & work, profit & loss, Pipes
& Cisterns, Mensuration, Problem on Ages, Investment etc.. From Data
Interpretation Use of Tables and Graphs, Histogram, Frequency polygon,
Bar-diagram, Pie-chart, Pictorial Graph etc.
General Awareness:- Question will
be asked from Indian History, Indian Polity, Current Events, Geography, Economy
etc. Focus will be on Current national & International events, banking,
sports etc. Some questions from Finance & Marketing can be ask in the exam.
Focus will be on News related to Railway, Rail Budget, New Technologies &
Reform in Indian Railway.
General Science:- Questions will
be of Basic Concept of Science (Class 12th standard), Questions will be ask from
Daily use science. Physics, Chemistry, Biology & Zoology.
Technical
Ability:- Questions will be ask from the
Subject/ Trade/ Branch select by candidate. For Section
Engineer Some Mathematics questions from topics Laplace Transformation,
Matrices, Basic Linear Algebra will be ask.
Questions for
Technical Ability will be from following Topics of
Eligible Trades:-
Civil Engineering:- Mechanics,
Structural Analysis, Concrete Structures, Steel Structures, Soil Mechanics,
Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics, Hydrology, Bridge Construction, Water
requirements, Highway Planning, Traffic Engineering, Importance of surveying,
principles and classifications, mapping concepts, coordinate system, map
projections, measurements of distance and directions, leveling, theodolite
traversing, plane table surveying, errors and adjustments, curves, Environmental
Engineering, Estimating, Costing and Valuation & Building Materials.
Focus will be Mainly on Construction/ Structure Engineering. Some Questions
from Basic Drawing type will be ask in the exam. Questions ask will be General
Civil Engineering Type.
Mechanical Engineering:-
Engineering Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Theory of Machines, Design for
static and dynamic loading, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics,
Power Engineering, Steam Tables, Rankine, Brayton cycles with regeneration and
reheat, I.C. Engines: air-standard Otto, Diesel cycles, Metal Casting, Machining
and Machine Tool Operations, Metrology and Inspection. Questions will be ask
from basics of these Subjects & beam types.
Electrical Engineering:-
Basics of Circuits and Measurement Systems, Electric Circuits and Fields,
Signals and Systems,Electrical Machines, Power Systems, Control Systems,
Electrical and Electronic Measurements, Analog and Digital Electronics, Power
Electronics and Drives. In Electrical Engineering Key Subject for RRB exam is
Electrical Machines, Basics of circuit & Power Electronics.
Electronics Engineering:-
Electronic Devices: Energy bands in silicon, intrinsic and extrinsic silicon.
Carrier transport in silicon: diffusion current, drift current, mobility, and
resistivity. Generation and recombination of carriers.p-n junction diode, Zener
diode, tunnel diode, BJT, JFET, MOS, MOSFET, LED, p-I-n and avalanche photo
diode, Varactor Diode, Analog Circuits, Digital Circuits, Signal & Systems ,
Control System & Communication Basics. For Electronics & Communications
people Focus on Basic & Fundamental Electronics Concept, Signal &
Systems, Wireless Communication, Antennas, Arrays, EMFT.
Computers Engineering:- MS Office;
Computer fundamentals & organization; C , C++ & Java language;
Information systems; DBMS; System programming; Operating systems; UNIX; SAD;
Data & Network communication; Web technology & programming; Software
Engineering, Computer Networks, Databases, Algorithms.
Instrumentation &
Measurement:- Basics of Circuits and Measurement Systems,
Transducers, Mechanical Measurement and Industrial Instrumentation, Analog
Electronics, Digital Electronics, Signal Systems, Measurement System, Process
Control, Control Systems & Instrumentation. Focus will be more on
Transducers, Measurement & Control Systems. Some questions of Signal &
System will be ask in the RRB exam.
Junior Engineer (IT) :- MS
Office; Computer fundamentals & organization; C , C++ & Java language;
Information systems; DBMS; System programming; Operating systems; UNIX; SAD;
Data & Network communication; Web technology & programming; Software
Engineering; Environment & Pollution Control.
Junior Engineer (Printing Press):-
Mathematics & Science including Physics, Chemistry,
Environment & Pollution Control of class X standard; Printing techniques;
Printing materials; Paper & Ink technology; Digital technology &
Imaging; Control Application in Printing; Printing surface preparation; Offset
Printing; Color science; Flexo & Gravure; Newspaper printing; Basic concepts
of Computers.
Environment & Pollution
Control:- Nature of questions is Basie Type. It will be a
test of General Engineering topics of Environment, Pollution Control Methods,
Type of Pollution etc.
Engineering Drawing / Graphics:-
In Engineering Drawing Sections questions will be ask from basics of Drawing.
Candidates have to focus on Fundamental of Graphics & Engineering Drawing.
